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- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
personality, psychological insights, and talented hands can create wonderful effects that amaze an audience. It's just as much about the hard, creative work Randal puts in to continuously improve his art. “Organizations can do a wonderful... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
(fence-sitters) provide the change agent with an affective basis to coopt them. This cooptation increases the probability that the organization will adopt the change. By contrast, strong ties to potentially influential organization members who disapprove of a change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company investigated these questions, finding that conditional bonuses were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
"By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs or barriers, you will affect many other elements with effects that are difficult to predict." Reinert: For millennia, most trade was either in raw View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
manner that increases reimbursement or avoids financial penalties. Identifying upcoding in claims data is challenging due to unobservable confounders (e.g., patient risk). We leverage state-level variations in adverse event reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
field experiment in which we send encouraging text messages to students. Our initial results show that these simple text messages reduce the proportion of students that stop attending by 36% and lead to a 7% increase in average attendance relative to the control group.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American business education over the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
reduction of firm variability, we do not find this offsetting beneficial effect to be strong. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44730 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
network, with a pattern broadly consistent with theory. Quantitatively, the network-based propagation is larger than the direct effects of the shocks. We also show quantitatively large effects from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
abandon their ethics to get it.” When applied to individuals, the question prompted an interesting exchange between Sandeep and Phillippe Gouamba regarding the effect of wealth and poverty on the tendency of managers to employ super... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Publications October 2014 Harvard Business Review Press Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—There are many books that provide strategy advice and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
download available at this time. Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
vertical portals have a profound effect on traditional distribution networks, but because many vertical portals will have production capabilities, they may also pose a threat to specialty producers that choose to downplay the significance... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
from new entrants. We further provide evidence that these effects are due to increased competition for local resources. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-112.pdf Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
evidence that this effect is driven by psychological reactance rather than by overcompensation for potential bias. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
an hour, or 90 minutes at the most. There are tremendous diminishing returns in lengthier meetings. When you only have an hour, you don't waste time on nonproductive tangents. You also need to think about how you structure the meeting. When meeting View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
Manager as Mentor: Effectively Managing a Diverse Workforce," had employed the word "mentor" to lure Harvard managers to the early-morning session. What Thomas prefers, he explained to the group, is the more tongue-twisty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
possibility, in light of the lessons of the Kursk submarine rescue failure. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-003_f69cf9de-5517-4355-95c4-5555674a37ee.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne